I think only HelenHeaven could find these stories.
I have no comment.... No comment even comes to mind... actually my mind is blank now... The world is getting darker... All thought has now been eeeerrrraaassssssssss ..........

::because she wants the dog to protect her baby girl as the pair grow up.
This sound like a movie. She probably watch too many dog rescue episode.

::When Kura called us to witness her unusual relationship...
And she wants the public to see that?? Looks like she wants attention or is sending a secret msg to other women who is into breast feeding... c'mon now women, start doing it

::"I didn't want to waste it...
??? What about other women? They're wasting it? No wonder why it's.. big. Why not adopt another child and start giving milk that way you can decrease the size.

::"...so I gave it to Honey Boy," Kura said.
Calling a pet Honey BoY is a sign of brain damage! Sorry I can't help it, it's just too funny. I assumes this lady is divorce...

::I wanted to raise it (the puppy) with my baby.
I assume the puppy is male. IF this continue and the mother doesn't get her brain fix, next stop she might want her little girl to experiment with this dog.

::Kura said she would probably wean the puppy off in six weeks time
The dog will probably attack her if she stops giving milk. "The puppy was instantly hooked on the unexpected food supply and has been having two feeds a day for the past week."

::He drinks more than the baby. It doesn't hurt, but it's a little bit ticklish
She wants you to know how it feels.

::Kura, said she did not care what people thought about her breastfeeding the puppy.
I think she've been listening to "sunscreen" too much "Do one thing everyday that scares you... Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.. even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room." or is deeply influence by Dale Carnegie with the philosophy that "What other thinks about you is non of your own business."

::"It's my life, my responsibility I make my own choices."
She just finished reading self-help book - "How to be independent" and is very very excited about it. A test would be great!

A Hawke's Bay woman who is breastfeeding a puppy so it will protect her baby could end up with a savage dog on her hands, animal behaviour experts fear.

Hastings mother Kura Tumanako revealed this week that she breastfed her Staffordshire bull terrier puppy twice a day in the belief that it would grow up to protect her three-month-old baby.

Ms Tumanako said she started breastfeeding the puppy when her baby stopped taking her milk, and she did not want the milk to go to waste.

But dog behaviour experts are alarmed over the unusual case and say the puppy could end up an aggressive dog with behavioural problems.

Napier dog trainer John Lane said there could be long-term behavioural defects in the animal and he feared the woman could end up with a savage dog if it was trained as a protector.

"You have a potential danger here," he said. "We should not be training dogs for protection – the only people that should be doing that are the police. I really can't see any advantage in doing it."

Mr Lane, who has extensively studied dog behaviour, said the average dog would protect its family in a serious situation anyway. Dogs should be trained to alert owners to people coming on to the property only by barking.

Massey University animal psychologist Vicki Erceg said a dog should be treated as a dog, not as a human being.

"It is hard to tell what this (breastfeeding) would do – a dog is not a mini human," Ms Erceg said.

"We are trying so hard not to have aggressive dogs. It's not appropriate to have a dog purely for protection."

Auckland Unitec animal behaviour and welfare lecturer Nancy Clarke said a puppy's socialisation stage was crucial for its continuing development.

"By breastfeeding, the dog will develop a very strong bond to the mother rather than the baby and potentially look at the baby as a subordinate member of the family," Ms Clarke said.

"You could be looking at a dog potentially seeing itself as a higher-ranking member of the pack than the baby – the dog could become protective of the mother."

Not neccessarily. The dog will feel like a child, a younger child. Have any older siblings? Ever get jealous of them and get in to fights, etc. But you dont have fangs like the dog does. I foresee trouble.

"Do one thing everyday that scares you... Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.. even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room."

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